Birds Aren’t Real

Birds Aren’t Real

released on Sep 08, 2023

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Birds Aren’t Real

released on Sep 08, 2023

As a government surveillance pigeon drone, you'll engage in missions, sneak around the city, and use your creative thinking to manipulate the townsfolk and dispel their suspicions about your totally not-real Avian Task Force.


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Pretty short, but not a bad way to spend an hour or so, especially considering It's Free Video Games, which I add to my steam library (without necessarily downloading) if they look at all Okay. It's a fun little Bird Chaos game that was pretty clearly a student project, given the goofy-ass premise and the simplistic graphics. It's very funny that the pigeon model is way more detailed than literally any other models in the game. This is not a dunk, I kind of loved it actually.

It's a little janky, but I can't really say it's janky in a bad way. The quests were cute, although I didn't really feel compelled to 100% this by collecting all the profiles and doing the optional quests. The jank didn't actually get in the way of the gameplay, at least, given that the Tracking Poop felt like it homed in on the townspeople a bit.

I think the biggest problem I had was the photography aspect, which I think had two main issues. The first was that there wasn't anything to let you know that you'd already taken a picture of a townsperson if you didn't immediately take their picture after pooping on them, which was a pretty big reason I didn't want to bother with 100% completion. The other problem was that there were a lot of times that I felt like I got a pretty clear line of sight to a townsperson but the camera would not identify them? I think it was because I was in a bush or too far away, but eeeeh. I'd say it felt a little cheep.

Wait no pigeons don't go cheep cheep, fuck

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